Interesting Conversation

Sometimes I am just amazed at what people will tell me when I serve them at work. I work in the Chinese deli at Dillon's. Sometimes people will tell me about their day, others will complain to me about their kids or something they can't find in the store. During some of these times I wish I had a video camera to capture these moments.
Take for example today. It was really REALLY slow today. I believe that we had a total of 50 people all day. There were a couple people who just really cracked me up. The first customer that I served today was was the funniest that I have met in a long time. She was really busy and her phone kept on ringing but she kept trying to have a serious conversation with me about the horrible weather and how the dense fog is such a bad thing for the environment and the how its messing up her cat's digestive cycle. It was hilarious!
Another person I talked to today was a regular of ours. He's deaf and I've learned some basics of sign language and I tend to mess up some of the signs sesame chicken and anything that has chicken in it. I don't know I just mess up signing "chicken". It comes out meaning something totally different. Like today it came out "cleaning". I don't know where that came from it just happened. All I know is that this guy just totally busted up laughing and I felt foolish. Ah well we figured it out in the end. We had a good laugh about it though.
However, I really wish that I had a video camera on Thursday night. It was winding down after the dinner rush and this one older gentleman came in in a motorized wheelchair and he had on a breathing tank and he was in a talkative mood. After I finished serving him and rang him up he started talking to me about college and what I was planning on doing with my life. I told him about my filmming and how I loved making documentaries. I told him that I'd like to do a documentary on the troops in Iraq and Afghanistan and everywhere else and how this affects the women who serve while they're there and after. Well anyway, he thought that was a great idea nd he started talking about his time when he was stationed in Germany in WWII. I learned so much from him in a span of about 30 minutes and I know that if I could talk to him longer I would get a lot of good stories out of him and learn so much about the stuff that we didn't see in the press. It was amazing. He told me of some of the families that he helped and the people who served with him. He told me in particular about this one family. They didn;t speak a word of english but they were so greatful to him and the unit that all they could do was cry and hug them. In 1984 he recieved a letter from the youngest child in the family. He had grown up and he had moved to America. He was living in New York and he had found this man who saved his family and he wanted to thank him. Last year he came to visit this gentleman. This was awesome to me. I got to talk to a real hero. A man who sacrificed 5 years to help these families in Germany and Austria. He gave up 5 years of seeing his family. He gave up seeing his first daughter born and the first few years of her life. This man is a true hero. I would love to talk to him again and I can't wait for him to come in again so I can talk to him some more.
I learn so much from some of these people and other people I just want to laugh at. Although there are days when I just want to yell at some of these people and tell them to grow up!. Oh well, people are people and everyone is different. I guess we just have to put up with everyone else because they put up with us right? Before I close I just have to ask of you parents and guardians this, "Please don't allow your kids to put their hands and faces on the glass case because it is horrible to clean up. Also please don't put your hands on top of it either, I have to clean that and I can't totally reach the top with out a step stool." Anyway, I look forward to Wednesday and the new people to make me laugh and the new lessons to learn, and the interesting people to meet.
I'll catch ya on the flip side!-p

What Christmas Means To Me

As I sit here taking a break from the preperations for Christmas dinner tomorrow I have to watch one of my personal favorite shows; Tin Man (a continuation of The Wizard of OZ.) I love this mini series. It talks of family, friends, strength, courage, love, commitment, and of course, home. I can't help but think how much I miss home and my family.
This is not my frist Christmas away from my parents and it definately won't be the last. However when I start to feel homesick I start to think of the things that I have that others do not. I have a place to live, food to eat, a job to support me, friends, parents just a phone call away, brothers who'd do anything for me, sisters who, while sometimes annoying, make me laugh, family living close by (my roommate is my cousin after all), God who loves me even when I forget, and people who listen as I vent. I have this when others don't. Of course if this doesn't work I call my mom who I can trust to make me feel better.
If everyone did this when they were feeling bad or sad or something along those lines the world might just be a little bit brighter; even on these cold and blizzardy days. So as I finish this post I think of the things that I have to finish for tomorrow's dinner I think of the things I'm thankful for this Christmas and take comfort in that. This is what Christmas is to me: to be thankful and grateful for what we have, not dwell on the past but use it for reference to the future and look forward to what is yet to come, whether it be good or bad. That's why Christ gave his life for us so we celebrate his birth. That is what Christmas means to me.
Merry Christmas!

Developements

So I am pretty excited. I am finally going to put my skills with the camera to the test. Today at work we were shooting a commercial and I was the one shooting it. It's pretty awesom because I get to use this state of the art equipment that is only reserved for the ones in charge of our commercials. Its a big deal because they never allow anyone to shoot these commercials unless they've been there a few years. So about this commercial. I had to shoot it about the department that I work in. Since i work in the Chinese kitchen in the store I had to shoot the 3 people who were working there today Trang (the assistant manager), Karen and myself (yes I got to be in my own commercial.
It was pretty awesome. I got to write, direct and act in it. That is my dream career; write, direct and act in my own films. We were pretty excited about it. Unfortunately I couldn't put it up here but if you live in any area that has a Dillon's Store you will be able to see it in a couple of weeks. I'm going to try and put it up on YouTube once it comes out and then put it up here so here's hoping.
So keep reading to get developements.
Catch Ya on the Flip Side!-P

Veteren's Day Tribute

So I know that Veteren's Day was yesterday but I wasn't able to post anything because of being so busy. I wanted to thank the men and women who serve this country in the past the present and those who will yet serve. I want to give a shout out to some very close friends of mine who are serving in Iraq and Afganistan. While I won't reveal their names for their saftey, I will say that I more than appreciate what they do everyday. May God bless them with safety and a safe return home.

LIFE..

Who knew that the game of LIFE was so correct sometimes? I sure didn't think so untilo today. Today started out a fairly decent day; I woke up and got my check (it was pay day),I went to my brother's, since ti was his day off, and we went to go see about getting new tires for the front of my car. Now my car is not the most reliable; I mean its an '83 T-Bird, its old, but it gets me from point A to point B (in town) which is what I need right now. Well, no one, no matter where we go, has tires that will fit it. That's fine, I had been thinking about gettinjg another car because this one was making strange noises and I get into a lot of arguments with it; plus I have the money saved up and I can afford it at the moment. Well that was when the day started going downhill. No one had a car in my price range until we went to a dealership on the edge of town. I found an excellent car and I tested it out, drove it and I fell in love. I was ready to sign the paper work and buy it. it was perfect, how could I turn this down? Well, when you only work at a place for less than 6 months you can't take out a car loan to make monthly payments without a co-signer. Well the only person able to co-sign at the moment would be one of my brothers but its not going to work out. So I am stuck with a car that needs new front tires because I fill them up with air once a day.
Well I had to be at work at 4 and I got there on time and I find out I get to clean the grill tonight. The grill and I are no longer on speaking terms, so to speak. my hands are all tore up from the scrubbers and the cleaner. I got off an hour late, and now I'm sitting here waiting for a call about a potential job even though I should be sleeping because I have to be up at 4 am to get to work at 5 am to work the salad bar.
Like I started with, "who knew LIFE was so acurate sometimes?"

Differences of Lives: Past, Future and Where I’m At Now

I have been wondering as of late, why did I choose this as my career? Why did I choose one of the hardest industries to get into as my career choice? Not many people can decide what to do with their lives but I knew when I was in the third grade that I would have a career that involved writing. I hated writing before I went into the third grade but my teacher, Mrs. Fritz, was the coolest teacher and she didn’t make writing feel like something I had to do for school but something I wanted to do. I knew that writing was my calling. However, as time wore on I found other things that were my calling as well. When I was twelve I went to girl’s camp and I was in our skit as King Solomon and I knew that acting was my calling then. Then I started going to public school in high school and film and photography was my passion. I love all of them, writing, acting, filming and photography. I knew that I wanted to do something with my life that included all of them. I chose the film industry because I could do everything that way. I could write, direct, act in and produce my own movies and they would all need set dressers and I can take pictures on my breaks of what was going on around me. This was perfect for me. However, I had to choose just one to go to school for. I chose film because I’m not the greatest expert when it comes to parts of it and I want to emerge myself into this and learn all aspects.
There were road blocks though; the main one: money. Money and the lack there of. So to help to achieve to go to school for this I went to work because I couldn’t get very much in scholarships, it never even paid a quarter of one year’s tuition and it’s a four year school. I’m not going there anymore but I’m still paying off one year and so I can’t really afford to pay for another school until I finish paying this one. I found the school I really want to go to and can afford to but getting there is going to be hard because I have to pay for living and living there is expensive, they don’t have dorms so I have to live on my own off campus. That seems to be going right but right now I’m feel as though I’m not doing anything with my life.
As I started with I started wondering and questioning myself. I can’t help but wonder, am I having a midlife crisis before I’m even 20? I realized that when I started this blog I was having the time of my life and I wanted people to see the cool people that I interacted with on a daily basis. Most of them I have no idea as to who they were or what their stories were. I just asked random questions. Most of them loved it and I know my friends loved going around and doing that sort of thing. I haven’t even been able to put any videos up and that was the reason I started this. I love going through these videos but my computer rejects the ones that I do have. The rest were either stolen or in my camera that went over Niagra Falls. I had fun in living in New Jersey. I had weekends off and my friends lived in NYC so I could go up and stay with them and we went everywhere on weekends. We went to Niagra Falls, camping in Maine, skiing in Vermont, went down to Miami for the heck of it, sky diving in Washington state, went do to Washington D.C. for the inauguration and even went up to Vancouver in Canada a few times. I was living and having a great time. However, here I seem to be withdrawing and going back to who I was when I was in elementary school. A girl who didn’t get out and didn’t have fun. It’s not as though I don’t try to get out but it seems that every time I do go out something happens that throws things off. Why is it that I had no trouble making friends when I was living in New Jersey and Indianapolis, here, I’m surrounded by family but even then sometimes I don’t feel welcome and I have been here since April? I don’t even feel welcome at church. There is one place where I feel like I belong here but I don’t want to think that that is the only place where I can be around people who know me and accept me for me. The only place is at work and I hate going half the time because I have to work at the Chinese kitchen half the time and the rest of the time I’m working produce but I love working produce. There I have people who I consider to be my equals. They are all my age and we all are going to school for the same industry. Film; a common denominator that brings us together. Maybe I’m not questioning my career choice; maybe I’m questioning my place in this world? Where am I supposed to be at that I can do what I want to do, but also feel like I belong?

When Good People Get Screwed Over!

For the past few months I have worked my backside off to put away money and I have not worked that hard to get screwed over by my own customers. Let me start at the begining. I found out last Friday that someone has been taking my debit card while I have been working and using it to buy whatever. All I know of it is that they have stolen close to $800. I have put claims in with my bank but I am just so frustrated! Because of this the plans that I have had for my movie, vacation, and school have been put on hold because this is going to take a long time to work out. Whatever, I just have to keep up my spirits and try and get through this as quick as possible. I ask that you keep reading this blog and soon I will get some videos up soon and get you guys posted on my movie. Catch ya On The Flip Side!-P